Mauriac, François

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishMauriac, FrançoisFrançois MauriacMau‧ri‧ac, Fran‧çois /ˈmɔːriˌæk $ ˌmɔːriˈɑːk ˈfrɒnswɑː $ frɑːnˈswɑː/(1885–1970) a French writer of novels who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1952